Improvement in hose-nozzles



. A. HOWARD.

HOSE-NOZZLE.

Patented March 27,1877.

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CORNELIUS A. HOWARD, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOSE-NOZZLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [88,909. dated March 27, 1877 application filed February 20, 1877.

nection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to he a full, clear,and exactdescription of the same,

and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent a longitudinal central section.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of hose-pipes designed for use in the garden and similar small hose, the object being to combine with the pipe a handle for the convenient use of the article. It consists in a pipe constructed with a shank to receive the handle, and with a lateral opening turn iug into the pipe with a valve between the said lateral opening andthe exit, as more fully hereinafter described.

(1, represents the pipe terminating with the usual nozzle 1). cis the hose-connection, made transversely or laterally from the pipe, and

fitted to receive the hose-coupling. Between the hose-connection c' and the pipe a suitable cut-'ofl' is arranged, here represented as by a plug, d, hung to an eccentric, c, in connection with an external head,f, by which the valve may be drawn from its seat, as indicated in broken lines, to open the way from the lateral entrance 0 to the pipe a. The pipe extends below the lateral entrance 0 to form a socket, h, which is fitted to receive the handle I.

The hose is attached to the pipe in the lateral part c in the usual manner for coupling hose with the pipe. The handle l serves as a convenient means for holding the pipe, and the discharge is regulated by the valve between the lateral entrance and the pipe.

I donot claim an adjustable valve arranged in a hose-pipe so as to move in line with the axis of the pipe, as such I am aware is not new.

I claim- The herein-described hose-pipe consisting of the pipe at, with a lateral or transverse at tachment, c, and the handle I, with an adjust- ,able valve between the lateral entrance and the pipe, all combined substantially as described.

' CORNELIUS A. HOWARD.

- Witnesses:

4 J. H. SHUMWAY,

CLARA BROUGHTON. 

